A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine.